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What’s in Your Backpack?

See what U of T students rely on to get through their day Read More

Dua Khan, wearing a bright blue unbuttoned shirt over a black top and a black head scarf over a bright blue hijab, standing with her arms crossed

Where Neuroscience Meets the Real World

Student Dua Khan puts theory into practice during a placement at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute – and gets a clearer view of her future in medicine Read More

Vandana Maharaj onstage in costume, wearing a white frilly dress and a headpiece that looks like a sandpiper's head

A Winged Revival

U of T Mississauga drama students take on central roles in their final-year performance Read More

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Can We Learn from Other Cities How to Build Transit Better?

U of T students in a new course team up with community partners in Pune, India, to solve real-world urban problems Read More

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How Modern Technology Is Helping to Locate Long-Forgotten Graves

U of T Scarborough students are using ground-penetrating radar and lidar to search for unmarked burial sites Read More

Evelina Tronina and Seema Malmji, wearing lab coats and disposable gloves, are holding bottles of liquid in front of a tall, stainless-steel scientific device in a white lab room. Malmji is pulling open a panel on the device.

Where Science Means Business

A new space at U of T Mississauga will help life-science startups refine their lab-based innovations Read More

Students acting in a scene from The Trials. Two students appear to be in confrontation across a wooden table, with other students in the background, watching the pair.

Acting for Earth

Fourth-year drama students put their skills to the test with a theatrical warning of climate change run amok Read More

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Of Pies, Nuclear Plants and the Early Days of Co-op Education at U of T

Co-op started by launching grads into government – exactly as the program’s founders intended Read More

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Investigating Crime, One Fake Body at a Time

U of T Mississauga’s forensic science program gives students a unique training experience Read More

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Digging for Answers to a Local Mystery

For nearly a decade, U of T Mississauga students have searched for artifacts to reveal an archeological secret Read More